Does tape facilitate or inhibit the lower fibres of trapezius?

Manual Therapy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-41

  Alexander, Caroline M ^a   Stynes, Siobhan ^a   Thomas, Ashima ^a   Lewis, Jeremy ^b   Harrison, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Physiotherapy Department   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER GIRDLE; TAPE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE;

EID: 0037324141     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/math.2002.0485     Document Type: Article

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